Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-08-24
HEROES AT oAmP LouNsBURY

FOrm-A HOmel1ke Air Around the
Tented City Pretty Girls With
Bright Eyes Visit Camp -Pleasant
weather at Last-The First Battal-
ION Dress Parade In the Presence of
a Host of Fair AdmirerS-COlOnel
Camp News.
CAMP LoUNsBURY, NIANTIc, Aug. %.
Especial to the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
A nasty night, with occasional splashes of
rain to make the sentries of the State camp
day.
The brigade does not complain of variety
of weather it has variety with plenty to spare.
Yesterday it was the rain and to day the gen.
eral humidity.
To-day the soldier boys settled down to
work in earnest. The companies were
promptly on hand with full ranks and file.
All through the weary hours of last night
the patient sentinels paced up and down their
beats. No amount of any of the delights of
camp life can compensate the sentries who
did duty last night. A gun is a highly dis
agreeable thing to be encountered with while
| doing guard duty. When first taken out it
weighs about sixteen ounces, but before the
| relief guard comes it seems to weigh fully
sixty pounds.
The work OF the brigade to-day was very
| favorsbly commented on. The battalion
drills were excellent. The Second showed
up in fine shape. When Colonel Leaven-
worth gave the order to sire by battalion"
/ the click of the rifles were as if one man had
| fred. The Second regiment companies in
executing orders are prompt to a noticeable
degree as compared with the companies
of the other regiments. This was
plainly apparent today. The drill to-day
was productive of much good in the way of
i familiarizing the men in their duty. The
| improvement in the afternoon over the morn
| ing drill was apparent.
The battalion dress parade this afternoon
was voted ga sumner" by admiring specta-
| tors. The boys had on their finest and as
| each company marched from their respective
| street to form the battalion front the speeta-
| tors, several hundred of whom were present,
| applauded loud and long. And no wonder.
for the boys did look elegant. They had
secured their guns, buckles and straps,
/ painted their helmets and chalked their
chevrons until everything was faultless, and
| when they came to "carry arms" 1t was a
magnificent sight.
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| out strong, and the boys were happy. Old
| humidity took back seat for the day at
| least Before battalion dress parade the
/ weather was all that could be desired.
Throughout the afternoon the long rows of
1 tents lay white and hot in the glare of the
| tardy summers sun. Along the banks of the
| Mantle river lazy wind sprung up late in
| the day, and was waited up across the parade
ground making battalion drill bearable to the
boys, and far back to the westward the hills
doomed up. Shut in by these miniature
mountains, whose blue haze seemed to keep
out the murmurs of the world, the city of
white canvas drowsed the afternoon away.
In camp, where bang 1--WE don't refer to
rifles now is much rarer than in New Ha-
ven horse car, half dozen pretty girls can
capture whole regiment without half try
ing. Mantle is full of the fair sex. Fancy
sunshades were to day the ensigns of the at
lacking party. The star-spangled bunting
collapsed before them.
The privates in the City Guard had good
laugh to-day on afellow soldier. The victim
was explaining to a crowd how ne could
place penny on his forehead and let it drop
into funnel stuck in the waistband of his
trousers. He tried it, and while leaning back
balancing the penny on his head somebody
poured glass of something that was life
like representation of beer down the funnel.
1t was his only pair of trousers, too.
The impromptu musical entertainment
given by Colonel Watson to his regiment, the
Fourth, was grand success and most enjoy
able in all particulars.
So general has been the custom in previ
GUS years of taking intoxicants into camp
that the new departure of excluding them
does not have quite the desired effect. A
complete observance of the temperance rule
can hardly be expected in a collection of
$500 men. But few of the boys in the vari
GUS companies came to camp with nothing
but Apollinaris in their knapsacks. The
open drinking habit of course is banished,
but the soldiers are not unanimous in their
views of not drinking anything stronger than
soda during the week.
The homelike air which prevails about the
camp is quite noticeable. The soldier boys
take kindly to their new life.
To-day the Second guarded the right front,
the Third the right flank, the Fourth the left
front and the First the rear.
Major Alexander Allen administers provost
guard duty with fidelity.
The reviewing stand was to-day moved up
in front of headquarters-the proper place
for it.
Colonel Morgans able superintendent of
the preparations, changes and make up of
the camp is complimentary referred to by
all.
Major Miller, brigade inspector OF rifle
practice. who is i'll, was much better to-day.
Colonel Lindsey will have him about by to-
morrow.
Ball playing-ball and foot-and other field
sports were INDUCED in to-day by hundreds
Of the boys on the beautiful parade ground.
The buglers give better satisfaction this
year than last.
The sick report for the day is as follows:
Governors staff, 0; Second regiment, 2.
Brigade staff, 1; Third regiment, 8.
Fourth regiment, 0; Fifth battalion, 1.
First regiment, 6; Battery A, O.
The following is the detail for Wednesday:
Field officer of the day, Lieutenant Thomp
son of the Fourth regiment; Fourth regi
E, officer of the day; Lieutenant William B.
Cocktail, Company E, senior officer of the
guard; Lieutenant William J. Phillips, Com
pany g, junior officer; First regiment-Cap
tain A. L. Thompson, Company E, officer of
the day; Lieutenant G. E. Bissell, senior
officer of guard; Lieutenant George Senk,
Company A, junior officer; Second regiment
Captain E. A. Greet, Company K, officer
of the day; Lieutenant K. q. Farrell, Com
pany g, senior officer of guard; Lieutenant
NJ. Creed, junior officer; Fifth battalion
Lieutenant Tighman, Company A, officer of
the guard.
There will be but little display on Cover
nor's day this year. This is at the request of
the States highest executive officer.
A grand hop will be given at the Morton
House Thursday night to officers of the
brigade.
Governor Lounsbury arrives at half-past
eleven tomorrow wednesday,. He will re-
main for the rest of the week He will be
received by his staff only and escorted to his
quarters on the camp grounds.
Private Huest, of the Light Guards, was
court-martialled this afternoon. He was in
toxicated Monday afternoon, disorderly and
resisted officers. Huest was dishonorab1y
discharged.
Lieutenant Totten's valuable work, en-
structions in Guard Duty" is now IN the
hands of nearly every man in camp. A
study of the little manual for few hours
will make good guardsman out of the or
binary State militiaman. By the way, his
will interest men who have been
to the front.
Lieutenant Totten is constantly instructing
in guard duty. He is an able and affable
officer. He is well and favorably impressed
by the Connecticut militiaman's quickness of
To the writer he said to-day
that the men do remarkably well. Lieuten-
ant Dyer also instructs in guard duty.
Sergeant Mcdonald of the Grays has Gre
ated a new slogan. 1t is:
The eagle flies to the mountain top,
When he flies his wings GO flop
E-A-G-L-E.
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